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How Could a Copycat Ever be Creative

Can there be any doubt that to call someone a ‘copycat’ is a taunt? Surely, copycats do nothing more than mechanical mimicry. Surely, a copycat could never be creative. After all, how could merely doing the same thing as someone else ever be original?

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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